Qpid

pottery smash “Did you just smash a pot over that guy’s head?” “Yeah.” “Why?” “Seemed appropriate to the milieu.” “What happened to that bow and arrow you were using.” “Uh — Didn’t work out so well.” Fine. No sexism here. Just bash the guards with either the melon or the mallet. Clive Revill was not the original image of the Emperor. It was a visual effect – the Emperor was ‘portrayed by Elaine Baker, then-wife of makeup designer Rick Baker. Her face was composited with the image of a chimpanzee for the eyes’ – wow, really!?! I always felt that actor got a raw deal when they re-casted etc… Enough with the “Q” titles, tho. if the show had gone past 7 seasons, would we have seen “Q-Tip”? where Q learns the fine art of food service? Why would Worf not know Robin Hood? He grew up in human culture. He would likely have been told stories of a heroic human warrior. Trek writers having trouble remembering whether Picard is French or English again. Why would Q default to Robin Hood – an English tale and not a French myth? just another inconsistency I’d say…but really I always wished they had explained that part of Picards history. It could have taken 5 seconds… Remember, Worf spent most of his childhood on Earth, I could see a young Klingon enjoying reading Robin Hood stories. Well, that and Viking sagas. I agree with the whole pot on the head thing being sexist. This is even more the truth considering it is explicitly stated in an earlier episode that all Starfleet personel is trained in some form of martial arts soooo yeah neither of these characters should be doing the pot thing. ———– You brought up an interesting thought about Risa… A planet that is promoting intimate relationships indicates that such a thing is needed which means that maybe The Federation recognizes that their military needs something like that. With regards to “Why would Warf know about Robin Hood”… Why wouldn’t he? He grew up on Earth going to Earth schools that would teach Robin Hood… It’d be far sillier that he wouldn’t is far sillier. Director Cliff Bole noted, “I got a few letters about ‘Qpid’ that the women who wrote asked why weren’t the ladies involved in a more modern way with the fighting. It was my feeling that we went back to the 12th century and we were doing the 12th century, and I can’t change history.” That is a little odd, still, given the time frame, we could also be speaking of a past species, not just civilization. The current Tagusians might not have been the ones who were around that long ago. No it is not an adequate defense. Women, though rare, fought just like everyone else. It’s ridiculous to accept that as an excuse no matter how warped the view of history is especially like you said, they are from the 24th century in a fantasy setting where women fight all the time. I don’t believe that Q feels he owes a debt. I think he just likes humanity and likes messing with them a bit, but assuming he actually does I think that Q like all people evolve through their experiences. We really don’t know how powerful Q is or how long has past between episodes, or even if they’re in the order that ! experiences them… The first and the last episode of TNG can be said to illustrate this to some degree. Ep1 and the Last ep could happen together from Qs perspective with all the others coming afterwards or conversely all the experiences with Q could come before even the first episode and the reason he interferes in Farpoint is ultimately to help them and to get them ready for the final ep trial. Save for the whole pre-requisite for Federation Officer thing that trains them in martial arts, one of such know martial arts concerns bo-staff weaponry, the fact that they’d always be carrying daggers, etc… yup no reason to think they could fight or have the weapons available to fight with them v.v but they’d definitely have random pots around and that would definitely be more effective to pick them up, sneak up on their target and smash it on their